Author: Johnson Thembo
Kenya’s Harambee Stars have kept their hopes alive of progressing to the knock-out stage of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. This striped with a gutsy 3-2 win over familiar foes Tanzania that has become the first country to get eliminated from the ongoing tournament in Egypt’s capital Cairo. As Bobi Wine’s slogan goes ‘Obalaba Bapika Obunyama, Naye Ngawork Wambwa’ a famous one that relates on the contradictions of appearances Vs reality. Tanzania was baptized by the skinny neighbours, an action that forced them to demonstrate Diamond Platnum’s Tetema or Kanyaga dance moves on the pitch. Harambee Stars came from…
Cabinet early this week approved the National Health Insurance Scheme Bill. According to Ruth Acheing, the scheme is meant to improve the provision and access of Health services to all Ugandans. The bill is also intended to facilitate the provision of accessible, affordable acceptable and quality healthcare services to citizens irrespective of their age, economic, health and social status. Aceing added that the bill is also to develop health insurance as a complementary mechanism of healthcare financing and ensure efficiency in healthcare services. “Government and private employees will contribute 4 percent of their monthly salary to the NHIS while employers will contribute 1…
Busongora North Member of Parliament Hon. William Nzoghu has decried the increasing levels of corruption and Kleptocracy in the country. The shadow minister of works and transport made this comment yesterday at Parliament while commenting on the Bank of Uganda 90 billion controversial saga. It is said that the incessant scandals plaguing the country’s central Bank follows the recent mishap in which a consignment of printed currency flown into the country included extra cargo not on the bank’s documentation. In the exclusive interview, Nzoghu stated how this incident was just part of the series of games that have been played…
Members of Parliament have raised concern over the incessant scandals plaguing the country’s central Bank following the recent mishap in which a consignment of printed currency flown into the country included extra cargo not on the bank’s documentation. The legislators on Tuesday, 26 June 2019, hinted on the unsatisfactory behaviour of the Bank of Uganda (BoU) in response to a report presented by the State Finance Minister for Planning, David Bahati, noting that not so long ago the Bank was under investigation for erroneously shutting down commercial banks in the country. Hon. Abdu Katuntu (FDC, Bugweri County) said that there…
The Uganda Cranes head coach Sebastien Desabre and captain Denis Onyango addressed the media at the Cairo International Stadium on Tuesday morning. This was during the official press conference prior to the group A encounter against Zimbabwe. Desabre told the media that the team is focused and concentrated towards the game with Zimbabwe having picked maximum points in the opener against DR Congo. ‘We are focused and concentrated for the Zimbabwe game on Wednesday. The win we registered against DR Congo now means for nothing. We need maximum points against Zimbabwe so that we head to the final game with…
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, has said intrigue and stoking of conflict has to be dispensed with so that Uganda’s journey to development can be unhindered. Oulanyah said in order to achieve the desired development, it is crucial to create friendships, build bridges and work together in sincerity and harmony. Wars and chaos, he added, will not be entertained. “…let us stop plotting sabotage, let us stop plotting chaos [instead] let us preach peace, let us preach unity and development; let us work together for the prosperity of Uganda,” said Oulanyah, who presided at a fundraising function for…
Margaret Kabango 75 has witnessed many things during her upbringing in rural Eastern Uganda. But the worst of all is seeing older women flashed out of their matrimonial homes at the death of their husbands by relatives. More bewildering is the fact that no one is ever penalized for the crimes of forceful evictions. “It is worse for the women who age without children to defend them,” she says adding that culture has refused to integrate the national matrimonial laws which recognize individual ownership of property gender notwithstanding. A Gender Land and Asset Survey by the International Centre for Research…
Politics is not about making money but serving the community, pupil leaders of Entebbe Junior School have been told. The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, told the pupils during a mentorship session in the Parliament Conference Hall on Wednesday, 19 June 2019 that a true politician sacrifices with the aim of serving a greater good that is bigger than them. “I left my profession as a lawyer, which was handsomely paying, to join politics which pays much less and yet I still share the money with the people I represent; but I do this to serve my people,” he…
President Museveni has finally confirmed a total of 859 police officers who were passed out in the previous police pass out. This is the first phase and we expect more cadet officers to be confirmed in the second phase According to Uganda Police Deputy Spokesperson Polly Namaye, Over 4000 officers who included police cadets and Probation Police Constables were passed out in 2015 at the Police Training School in Kabalye, Masindi district but up to date had never been confirmed and recognized as fully serving officers of the Uganda Police Force.They had to undergo at most two years of probation.…
A backbench Commissioner of Parliament, Hon. Peter Ogwang, has demanded that the health workers who appear selling government issued medicines in the television documentary, “Stealing from the Sick” should be arrested and prosecuted. Ogwang made the demand as a matter of national importance during the Wednesday, 19 June, 2019 plenary sitting chaired by the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga. The NBS TV documentary in partnership with the BBC Africa Eye was played in the Parliament for about 10 minutes to give opportunity to MPs who had not watched it to have a sneak peek of it. Owing to the length…